Notch Mountain Trail

Summit County - Eagle County - Clear Creek County

Mount of the Holy Cross (14,005') earned fame when William Henry Jackson photographed a snow-filled couloir that resembled a cross on the peak's NE face in 1873. The CCC was commissioned in the mid 1920s to build the Notch Mountain Shelter (13,077'), located on a nearby saddle with spectacular views of the cross and adjacent peaks on the Holy Cross Ridge.